A beginner's guide to reaching the Bronze Age in 15 minutes
with Shang Villagers on Land Based Maps

Ken Stanley
(stanley@cs.berkeley.edu)

Abstract:

The keys to reaching the bronze age fast are: creating three
villagers a minute, finding food and wood sources and exploiting those
sources efficiently.

I first present a simple scheme which will get you to the bronze age
in fifteen minutes or less 90% of the time. Then I present alternatives
which reduce that the time it takes to get to the bronze age and
deal with some rare events that may make getting to the bronze age
particularly difficult.

It took me hundred of hours to learn to reach the bronze age in
fifteen minutes. If you follow this sequence and spend a few hours
doing the training exercises listed here, you will save yourself
hundreds of hours.

Although I have tried hard to make this guide accesible to beginner's,
it is difficult not to take things for granted that beginner's might
not know. Hence, the most importnat way for this guide to improve
is through your feed back. So, please send your comments to me at:
stanley@cs.berkeley.edu